title: Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch.
abstract: A case of persistent thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a toddler following radiographically confirmed epidural catheter placement is reported. Treatment of the fistula with a thoracic epidural blood patch was successful.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. andrew.franklin@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Andrew David
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: Stephen Robert
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Hays
mesh_terms: D015360:Analgesia, Epidural / Q000379:methods; D017217:Blood Patch, Epidural; D002404:Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017577:Cutaneous Fistula / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Anesthesia, neuraxial; Epidural blood patch; Epidural catheterization: complications; Fistula, cerebrospinal cutaneous; Pediatrics